The Secret For Believers

Remember a few years ago there was a movie and book called “The Secret”? Oprah did a piece on it. It was about positive thinking and how keeping our thoughts positive helped, and even bettered, our circumstances. Well, it’s not such a secret, really. It’s been under our noses for the last couple thousand years, give or take a few months.

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

I’ve had a very hard time keeping my thoughts positive today. If I could have beaten myself, I would have. We were on our way to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my license renewed and to obtain an ID for my daughter. Well, it seems I lost her birth certificate and SS card. I have NO idea what happened to them. I also lost my birth certificate, as well. They have been kept in the same place for many years. How this happened, I have not a clue… I have been beating myself up, emotionally, all day. Thank heaven we are in her state of birth so we got her a new birth certificate today. We will be heading to the Social Security office early tomorrow to deal with that mess. Once it’s taken care of, we’ll go to the DMV for the other.

In the 1950’s Dr. Norman Vincent Peale wrote a book entitled, “The Power of Positive Thinking”. I call it the Believer’s version of “The Secret” since it has many Bible verses to back up what he said in the book. Since I’ve been doing a lot of ‘me bashing’ in my mind, lately, I pulled out my copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking” to get a brush up on it and I was inspired to write about it in April. I know I’m not the only one having trouble with “self abuse”, and I hope to help anyone else who may have this problem too.

Spending time with the above verse has opened my eyes to just how bad my thoughts go astray and in keeping with my personal goal of taking each thought captive to the obedience of Christ, I know I need to practice this much more until my thoughts are kinder over all.